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3.00 Credits
Study of the development of the Japanese religious tradition in the pre-modern period. Attention given to the thought and practices of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism; the interaction among these religions in Japanese history; the first encounter with Christianity. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Historical overview of Jewish belief and practice as these have crystallized and changed over the centuries. Special attention to ritual and worship, the forms of religious literature, central concepts, religious leadership at institutions, Israel among the nations. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
This is an undergraduate lecture course introducing students to the study of African American religion. While there are no required prerequisites for the course, prior coursework in religious studies or African American history is helpful. This course progresses as a historical survey and is intended to introduce students to important themes in African American (thus American) religious history (i.e. migration, urbanization, nationalism) through a rich engagement with the religious practices and traditions of black communities. Primary attention is given to Afro-Protestantism in North America; however, throughout the course attention is directed to religious diversity and varying religious traditions/practices in different diasporic locales. While this is a lecture course, students are expected to arrive each week having completed assigned readings and prepared to make informed contributions to class discussions (as class size allows). By the end of the semester students will be expected to possess a working knowledge of major themes/figures/traditions in African American religious life, as well as key questions that have shaped the study thereof. - J. Sorett 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Familiarizes students with the academic study of religion. It draws the attention of students to the field of religious studies as an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural nexus for the study of societies and cultures. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
The phenomenology of religious experience and the historical forms of religious life. The presuppositions, data, and documents of the religions of the West. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Major motifs in the religions of East and South Asia - Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, Shinto. Focuses on foundational "classics" and on a selection of texts, practices, and political engagements that shape contemporary religious experience in Asia. - To be announced General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
What is religion This course will seek to engage a range of answers to this question, beginning with some of the reasons we might want to ask it. Acknowledging the urgency of the matter, the class is not a survey of all religious traditions. Rather, it will seek to address religion as a comparative problem between traditions (how does one religion compare with another Who invented comparative religion ) as well as between scholarly and methodological approaches (does one live--or ask about--religion the way one asks about Law Culture Science Politics ). We will seek to engage the problem of perspective in, for example, the construction of a conflict between religion and science, religion and modernity, as well as some of the distinctions now current in the media (news and movies) between religion and politics, religion and economics. Historical and textual material, as well as aesthetic practices and institutions will provide the general and studied background for the lectures. - Gil Anidjar 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of the main textual sources of the Buddhist ethical tradition, with atttention to their historical operation within Buddhist societies, as well as consideration of their continuing influence on contemporary developments, Western as well as Asian. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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4.00 Credits
This course will study, from a number of methodological approaches and angles, the Buddhist views on violence and non-violence, and the historical record. - Bernard Faure 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Introduction, by critical methods, to the religious history of the Christian movement in the New Testament period. - E. Castelli, C. Deutsch General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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